Scarborough News

CAPE ELIZABETH a ' Schools in South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth are among those bearing the brunt of the latest curtailment in state aid to education.

A check is presented to Rockland High School teachers and students by FMC BioPolymer and Lonza.

Michelle LaRoche of Alfred and Patrick Gordon of Kennebunk look over DVDs at Bull Moose on Sunday in Scarborough.

Each year workers at the Worcester Wreath Company in Harrington load thousands of wreaths onto trucks to be shipped to Arlington National Cemetery.

When you apply to college you want to put your best foot forward. You want the admissions ... By Portland Pupils - 10/29 Most scores are now available for the October SAT and SAT Subject Tests.

Superintendent's Notebook: Budget season begins early for Portland schools Published: Nov 16, 2009 12:00 pm - By James C. Morse Sr.

On a recent jaunt to Wal-mart in Scarborough Maine, I encountered an elderly man who was talking to himself.

Vittal Ramamurthy performs traditional Indian violin music and teaches all over the world.

Amid rolling fields on an old country road, disabled military veterans took to horseback and carriages Monday, Nov.

Investors who want to build a casino say they have more than enough signatures to put the question on next November's ballot.

Even Maggie Gallagher points out , "There are not very many Mormons in Maine, or black people, either, so they cannot blame this loss on either minority group.

Members of this Northeast Area chapter have fun while supporting charitable causes.

For his work teaching people how to garden and about the importance of kitchen gardening in particular, Roger Doiron has won First Place in the Education category of the 2009 Garden Crusader Awards.

The new Marden's Surplus & Salvage store in Scarborough, originally expected to open late this fall or early this winter, won't open before next year.

An official at Maine Medical Center in Portland said the victim in Wednesday's hit-and-run crash in Portland died from his injuries on Sunday.

The "Gloucester rally," as chief organizer Amanda Odlin terms the casually organized mass meeting tomorrow morning to vent grievances against the U.S. system of regulating fisheries, is expected to draw hundreds of working fishermen, but possibly not a single politician.

Nine communities are participating in an early voting pilot program in Maine. Early voting is not the same as absentee voting.

Bonnie Topham exits the voting booth after casting her vote on Wednesday. This year, Scarborough is one of nine Maine towns selected to be part of the state's Early Voting Pilot Program.

George Mitchell is the American special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama Administration.

Share + Oct 26, 2009 6:38 pm US/Eastern AUGUSTA, Maine As campaigns for and against repeal of Maine's gay marriage law urged their supporters to vote early, the state's top election official said Monday that turnout is on track to be far greater than in a typical off-year election.